Alabama Sorority Sisters Won't Support Black Sister Running for Homecoming Queen
LatestNew reports from the University of Alabama claim that one of the black women who was accepted into the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority during the continuous opening bidding process in 2013 spurred from Alabama’s racist pledging process is not getting the support she typically would from her sorority sisters in her run for Homecoming Queen.
As Collier Meyerson points out at Fusion, Alabama senior Amanda Bennett has written a piece at AL.com about Halle Lindsay, who “is making history as the first African American homecoming queen candidate who is a member of a Panhellenic sorority.” According to an op-ed in the Crimson White, however, alleged GroupMe screenshots leaked on Monday show sisters in her sorority discussing how they can’t support Lindsay because they’re worried about losing their standing in the Greek life social hierarchy.
“There will be so many consequences and they don’t tell you that until after you vote because everyone’s supposed to have a ‘choice,’” one of the messages read. They went on to discuss March’s SGA Presidential election, in which several Alpha Gams supported Elliot Spillers over Machine nominee Stevie Keller, and blamed that support for Mary Harmon Tyson losing the Machine nomination for Homecoming Queen to Phi Mu Katelyn Katsafanas. “If we keep going against the Machine we…will not have as many opportunities to be involved on campus,” the last message ended.
Update: The Huffington Post has published the alleged screenshots, and reached out to the women named in them; they all reportedly declined comment. One sister encouraged her fellow sisters to vote for whomever they wanted, but to say on social media that they’d be voting for Katsafanas:
it’s nothing against her cause we all love her but by social media y’all have to support the machines choice cause if not every fraternity in the machine will black ball us. so say goodbye to swaps. like we just really can’t do that to our new freshman next year. like literally we love her so much and yes we can vote for her but it’s the social media we have to show support for the machine. like i hate it too and absolute bs but we just can’t do that to new babies next year. love y’all-older active.
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